Index-holder



N0. 626,l79.- V Patented May 30, I899 J. P. MAcLEABN.

INDEX HOLDER.

(Application filed May 24, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PARKEItMAOLEARN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INDEX-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATIONformingpart of Letters Patent No. 626,179, dated May 30,1899.

Application filed May 24,1898- gflrifll No. 63115701 (N0 modem To allwhom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN PARKER lVIAO- LEARN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Index-Hold? ers, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and effectiveholder for a catalogue or indexsuch, for instance, as a telephonedirectory, where frequent changes are mademy improved holder being onewhich can either stand upon a desk or table or can be hung against aWall and being so constructed that the index sheets can be instantlyapplied to or removed from the holder, so as to permit of the readysubstitution of one index for another.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an indexwith holder therefor constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2is a sectional plan View showing the sheets of the index thrown apartfor the purpose of consulting a particular list of names thereon, andFig. 3 is a similar view showing the index closed and also showingamodified form of holder.

The holder consists of a base 1 of wood or other suitable material andof such dimensions that when placed upon a table or desk the shiftingweight of the index-sheets as the latter are turned back and forth toconsult the index will not be likely to overturn the base. From the rearportion of the base projects a vertical standard 2, which in thestructure shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is composed of a wire bent to form aloop at the top and having its lower ends securely confined to the base,the loop serving as a means of hanging the holder upon a hook or nailwhen it is not convenient to have it upon the desk or table.

The index-sheets 3 are perforated at two or more points near their rearends, the perforated portions of the outer or cover sheets beingpreferably strengthened by means of eyelets or equivalent reinforcingdevices, and through the perforations thus formed in the sheets arepassed wires at, which have looped or bent ends 5 engaging with theopposite vertical legs of the standard 2, so that when these wires havebeen slipped over the standard from the top the series of index-sheetswill be confined to the standard and base, but can be readily opened orspread out in order to permit ready reference to any one of them.

. When the old index is supplanted by a new issue, said old index issimply lifted so as to free its looped wires from engagement with thestandard 2, and the looped wires of the new index are slipped over thelatter in the same manner as before. Hence ready substitution of oneindex for another can be effected.

It will be evident that a sheet-metal plate or a single rod may take theplace of the looped wire as a standard for engagement with the hooked orbent wires of the index, and in Fig.3 I have illustrated a standard 2consisting of such single rod, the bindingwires of the index being bentso as to form eyes 5 for being slipped over said rod.

If desired, a cover or casing may be applied to the index-sheets and thestandard in order to protect the same from injury when the index is notin use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patentstantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN PARKER MAOLEARN.

\Vitnesses:

F. E. BECHTOLD, Jos. I-LKLEIN.

1. The combination of a base having a V61 tically-projecting standard atthe rear, with I

